Hi Sandra! I know this is too late for you, but for anyone who is reading I have some more helpful tips for the prep. My favorite is to have a wedge of a lime to bite into after you drink the prep. It helps take the shudder out of the wierd tasting stuff! I also recommend having a tube of vaseline, and 1% over the counter hydrocortisone cream.When the prep really starts to work, you can coat you tender hind end with the vaseline or hydrocortisone cream before the liquidy stool comes out. Helps alot with the stinging which usually develops. I had to have a bunch of bowel preps last year for kidney xrays, and honestly, the worst part for me (as an athlete who eats alot) is the day of clear liquids! I get sooooo hungry and tired of sweet liquids. For variety, I have been known to throw in some non-alcoholic beer, and my friend swears by vitamin water. Colonoscopys save lives, and truly, the prep is the hard part, the colonoscopy is pretty easy! I hope yours is easy too! Tokie